Contemporary Women

Fat girl problems.Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an EMT-that is, until her body got in the way.Shrink is a work of graphic medicine that depicts the...

Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist Foreword Indies Awards Finalist In M.S. Harkness' ((Tinderella)) second graphic novel, she weaves in and out of non-relationships, drug dealing, and sex work-all with the subtlety of a blunt ax! She constantly searches...

All their lives, Yasmine and Djibril Morissette Phan have heard of their mother's old country, Vietnam. But it was more a far distant land with lots of folklore more than a real place in their mind. Too often, immigrants bring fragments of their...

With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the classroom to help them build the skills that they need to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635298758Author Lauren BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Caliber ComicsPublisher Caliber ComicsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

A reimagining of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre set in present day, written by acclaimed screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and Eisner Award-winning illustrator Ramon K. Perez. Growing up in a broken home in a small fishing town, Jane dreamed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355100Author Paula Hewitt AmramFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 224mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772620252Author Sean KaremakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509063Author Liz PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

"Gallagher's zippy black-and-white art and sometimes-wordless spreads keep the pace quick, and a blossoming love between two of the girls will charm readers." - Booklist"Cartoony and fun" - VOYABeautiful, popular, and adored by all, Courtney, Amber,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761820Author Tallulah PomeroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Leslie Stein takes us on a sinuous urban stroll divorced from destination, glimpsing New York City through her open eyes. While she is closing up a bar late at night, she is also an adolescent at a rave in the mountains, an adult grappling with her...

No Kidding is a slice of life modern feminist graphic novel with a humorous take on a serious subject and a woman's right to choose.Jane, 35 years old, doesn't want to be a mother. Lucy did not plan on having a kid... But became pregnant. What is she...

All the Hopeless-Savages are back in this fourth volume of the critically-acclaimed series! Zero's in college (and hating it), though a tour with the Dusted Bunnies promises to rejuvenate her spirits - at least, that's what she's telling her therapist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616555719Author Adam WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Dark Horse ComicsPublisher Dark Horse ComicsWeight(grams) 593g

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women must make between being sexualized or being invisible In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from ...

Opposites attract-but should they get married?! Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683968726Author Bill WardFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

The year is 1995. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, twenty-two-year-old MariNaomi finds herself amidst a flurry of major life changes. Newly immersed in the pan-Asian diaspora of San Jose, California, half-Japanese Mari searches for connections to a...

Ghost Stories is a graphic novel collection offering three haunting explorations. Granted the chance to meet three of her dead idols in "Ghost," the author's cartoon-self embarks on a journey to remote and unanticipated landscapes, in a story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997895Author James RombergerFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 940g

Akari is an average 25-year-old office worker who harbors a secret she hides from her colleagues: she's so obsessed with the pretty-boy idol Ren-Ren that it's ruining her financially!When her lunch is stolen by a pigeon, a kind stranger offers his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509490Author Abby JamePage Count 108Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509957Author Corinne HalbertFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947194786Author Hitomi MikanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969358Author Beth HetlandFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721545Author Sunshine BarbitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969259Author Manuele FiorFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377407Author Chantal MontellierFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Tank Girl returns again in a brand new graphic novel written by original co-creator Alan Martin with artwork by the amazing Mike McMahon ("Judge Dredd")! After our heroine is rudely snubbed on a TV game show, she plots the death of the vulgar host in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603094627Author Sophie GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

Welcome to the Girl Juice House, home of only the hottest gang in town. Benji Nate s stylish and rambunctious sense of humour lovingly takes digs at the young and tragically hip reserved and introspective Nana, comically hypersexual Bunny, fledgling...

At long last, the class trip is finally getting underway. Amane's in a group together with her crush, Katou! Every hour together feels as short as a second, and the distance between them is just as small....The moment when something changes between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964797Author R. Kikuo JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

After the disaster of the Mars mission, Helen wakes up from cryosleep in a derelict shuttle. Some of her crew are dead, some missing. They have drifted for decades and are utterly lost. All she has left are messages from Earth-the last link with her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616555801Author Adam WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse ComicsPublisher Dark Horse ComicsWeight(grams) 528g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509711Author Benji NateFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman's life, starting from her childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that...

Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they're in the business of killing all god's creatures for profit. It's also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven...

After a stressful first date, Amane has a lot on her mind... She and Kato are now a couple! And that means dates and new special memories...and a lot of doubt and anxiety. Still, her first love makes all of the uncertainty more than worthwhile! About the...